The 2nd Cake Sale!!!!

Hi all, my name is Tarisai, and now its my turn to let you in behind the scenes. As an Entrepreneur start up capital is a very important thing. The 2nd Cake Sale was an opportunity for us to make more start up capital to start our business. If you had asked me at the beginning of this course if i thought i would be learning how to make pizza somewhere down the line my answer would have been "Hell No". lol

Not only was the 2nd cake sale an opportunity for us as a group to make money, but it was also an opportunity for us to grow as individuals. The night before cake sale was spent preparing for the big day ahead. My team member and I even slept on Jammie Plaza that night in the freezing cold, just to reserve our spot for the big day to come. Its an experience I will never forget, and to be honest never want to do again, lol. All the other teams who weren't sleeping on the Plaza actually thought we were mad, because winter was kicking in and to sleep in the boot of a Buckie was not really anyone's cup of tea at the time. However we did it and still managed to wake up bright and early at 5am to start the big day.

Though it did rain on the cake sale day, our outcome was amazing. We had a long queue during our peak time, between 12 and 2, unfortunately not as long as our competitors, the Burger stand, however we did provide fair competition, which was a great improvement from our first cake sale. I was in charge of the finance and at times found myself pouring coffee, tea, hot chocolate and handing out brownies at the same time as I was doing sales. Lets just say the hand sanitizer bottle next to me was my best friend that day. We stopped selling at around 7pm and started clearing up. The day was finally over and the hard workers we are left us being the last team standing once again.

I learnt a lot from cake sale about myself. I have always been a rather reserved person and being in charge of the sales and dealing with customers on a face to face basis let me enhance my communication skills as well as allowing me to step out of my shy bubble, and in the end I actually started enjoying taking to strangers, something I never thought would happen. Am I happy cake sale is over.. YYYEESSS I am, but am I glad It was an opportunity for me to grow, yes I also am. So its good bye to the Cake Sales!!!